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B-52 Radar Upgrade Faces New Delays, GAO Says

The B-52 Stratofortress is now not expected to field an upgraded radar until as late as 2030, a delay of roughly three years, as officials struggle to modernize the Eisenhower-era bomber, according to a watchdog report

2025-06-14 08:13:26 0 Comment 19743 view

How South Korea Can Deter North Korea’s Nuclear Gambit With Precision Air And Naval Power

The Atlantic Council’s recent report, A Rising Nuclear Double-Threat in East Asia: Insights from Our Guardian Tiger I and II Tabletop Exercises, has reignited urgent conversations about deterrence credibility in the Indo-Pacific

2025-06-09 05:03:44 0 Comment 16508 view

Hegseth Says US Will Not Be ‘Pushed Out’ Of Indo-Pacific, Calls On Allies To Boost Defense Spending

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used a key address here in Singapore to assert that while the US doesn’t seek war with China

2025-06-03 07:06:30 2 Comment 19410 view

Time For Space Force To ‘Clearly Say’ It Needs ‘Weapons In Space’: SPACECOM Head

Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of US Space Command, today put a capstone on the public campaign by top military space officials to reorient the US way of war to emphasize space is very much a new front for fighting

2025-04-11 03:20:35 0 Comment 19664 view

New Australian Submarine Industrial Base Strategy Calls For $30 Billion AUD Investment

The Australian government this week released a new strategy document calling for $30 billion AUD ($19 billion USD) in investment

2025-03-15 12:58:04 0 Comment 43121 view

Rafael, Kratos Team To Produce Solid Rocket Motors As Prometheus Energetics

Rafael, the Israeli company that makes Iron Dome, is creating a joint venture with US firm Kratos to produce solid rocket motors (SRMs)

2025-03-03 06:13:10 0 Comment 20978 view

Pentagon Marks 2 Long-Range Tests With Army’s PrSM And Army-Navy Hypersonic Missile

The US Army has taken two new steps forward in its quest for long-range strike capabilities that will be able to hold threats in the Pacific at range

2024-12-16 12:26:32 0 Comment 40839 view

How The Pentagon (Quietly) Spent $1 Billion Of Inflation Relief Money

When inflation soared in the wake of the pandemic, the defense industry emphatically warned the Pentagon of a problem

2024-11-15 03:21:32 0 Comment 37466 view

AUKUS Faces Little Threat From Trump, Aussie Officials Say

Senior Australian officials declared their relations with the United States sound in the wake of the victory of president-elect Donald Trump

2024-11-09 13:08:04 0 Comment 23971 view

Germany, UK Strike ‘First-Of-Its-Kind’ Defense Deal Prioritizing Deep Strike Weapons And Drones

today, will see the two European nations develop new deep-strike weapons

2024-10-24 05:13:27 0 Comment 36571 view

Boeing’s Defense Unit Logs Massive $2 Billion In Losses For Third Quarter

Boeing’s defense unit will take $2 billion in losses on fixed-price contracts when it reports its third quarter results later this month

2024-10-12 13:26:52 0 Comment 62759 view

Singapore, US Defense Innovation Unit Collab To Tackle ‘Unauthorized Drones’ In Indo-Pacific

As the US military seeks cost-effective ways to combat the threat of drones on land and at sea

2024-09-23 03:30:44 0 Comment 34106 view

The UN’s Peacekeeping Mission In Lebanon Has Been Renewed, But Amid Constant Clashes, Will It Help?

The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

2024-08-31 09:10:35 0 Comment 33670 view

AUKUS Partners Demonstrated ‘Real-Time’ AI Tests At US Army’s Project Convergence

Australia, the UK and the US, the three AUKUS partners, successfully trialled artificial intelligence (AI) enabled uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) and other autonomous capabilities with an eye to cutting identification time of enemy targets

2024-08-12 15:09:44 0 Comment 46644 view

Space-capable Link 16 Will Be ‘Game Changer’ In Indo-Pacific Conflict With China

LONDON, UK: As the US looks to exploit cracks in China’s formidable “red kill chain,” built expressly to keep the United States well outside the Second Island Chain in the event of a war for Taiwan, Beijing is going have a much harder time doing the same to America’s own “blue” kill chain thanks to a formidable new technology — a jam-resistant Link-16 that now extends to and from space.

2024-05-31 15:18:04 0 Comment 60878 view

New Details Emerge Of Russia’s Potential Nuclear Space Weapon

The Biden administration is taking to the bully pulpit to voice its conviction that Russia is moving to put a nuclear weapon in space designed to destroy satellites — with a senior State Department official for the first time today explaining that the concern is centered on a specific satellite development Moscow claims is aimed at testing electronics.

 

2024-05-06 01:34:31 0 Comment 88281 view